Still several spaces available for this Intensive. Just show up if you wish, we will accommodate you.
Come for 6 nights of jams and 5 days of intensive study with Moti Zemelman arriving Sunday, July20, 2014. Class begins on Monday morning with 2 classes per day of 2 hours each. Finishing the day with evening jams. All meals are included. Camping or dormitory included. You will be picked up from the Lasqueti ferry and returned there when the workshop ends after breakfast on Saturday July 26. $425. To register go to ‘contact us’ on the right side of this page and send us an email.
Hacking Contact Improv: 
Breaking Movement Codes with Spontaneous Curiosity & Presence
A hacker is someone who loves to innovate and who enjoys solving problems in playful, clever, or non-obvious ways. In CI we are programmers of our bodies, full of this spirit of playfulness and exploration. Movement codes or habits can be patterns that make us forget to be present. Let’s get out of the way of our own habits. Embracing Nancy Stark Smith’s adage “Replace ambition with curiosity”, we’ll play with modifying ingredients in our dances such as timing, space, shape and disorientation. Discover new pathways to lift and be lifted, new timing that make our dances both spacious and unconstrained, and new ways to be spontaneous in the now.
With the hacker’s attitude of delight in overcoming limits we will incorporate various communication tools to enhance our dances such as Non-violent communication (NVC), tantra inspired exercises, Byron Katie’s “The Work” and what I call the eight gazes (including eye-contact, blindfolded, and witness). With these tools and more we’ll explore being more deeply present with our partners. Our vulnerability and limitations are sources of energy and keys to unlocking power, stability, and new pathways towards deeper connection.
“There can be no vulnerability without risk; there can be no community without vulnerability; there can be no peace, and ultimately no life, without community.”
– M. Scott Peck
BIO:
Moti Zemelman, MFA, began practicing Contact Improv 26 years ago. Over the past 20 years he has taught and performed across USA, Canada, Guatemala, Costa Rica, Mexico, Europe and Israel. In 2008-09 he taught as Dance Professor at the Instituto Naciónal de Bellas Artes in Mexico City. Over the last 8 years in his desire to integrate communication and intimacy skills in his life and teaching he has studied Non-violent communication, tantra, Butoh, and Byron Katie’s “The Work”. Moti has been both a teacher and a board member at Earthdance Retreat Center in Plainfield, MA. He was an original member of Wire Monkey Dance Co., (Holyoke, MA, USA). He also designs and moderates the international Contact Improv resource website www.contactimprov.com. In addition Moti is a professional photographer. His latest project “The Dancer’s Tarot” is a photographic tarot deck, using dancers as models to embody the traditional Tarot archetypes.
Evening Jams will include live music – “As a musician Moti plays vocal-electronic music for Contact Jams and in 2007 released his debut CD, Doorwaves… Using his voice, electronic loopers, drum machines and effects to create ambient layers and textures Moti is a one-man bazaar… If Bobby McFerrin and Moby had a baby… “
